Perelman School of Medicine

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The path to deeper connections, even amidst a pandemic

A new book from Penn’s Edward Brodkin and psychology doctoral candidate Ashley Pallathra focuses on the science and practice of attunement, the process by which people can most effectively connect to themselves and others.

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Can a Penn epidemiologist prevent a bedbug-driven outbreak?

Epidemiologist Michael Z. Levy curbed a Chagas disease epidemic in Arequipa, Peru. Can he prevent an outbreak in Philadelphia?

Newton’s cradle where one end swinging ball is a covid virus cell and the other is a content happy face.

Anxiety in a post-COVID world

A return to the next normal post-pandemic may trigger anxiety for people anticipating a more public-facing life after a year of isolation.

Sixty percent of opioids unused after common procedures

A new Penn Medicine study of how text messaging could inform opioid prescribing practices shows that 60% of opioids are left over after orthopaedic and urologic procedures.

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Research reveals how a cell mixes its mitochondria before it divides

A team at Penn Medicine has discovered—and filmed—the molecular details of how a cell, just before it divides in two, shuffles important internal components called mitochondria to distribute them evenly to its two daughter cells.

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Turning back the clock on a severe vision disorder

Gene therapy triggered the regrowth of healthy photoreceptor cells and restored vision in dogs with a severe form of Leber congenital amaurosis.

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Med study illuminates the molecular details of lung development

Researchers at Penn Medicine have produced a detailed molecular atlas of lung development, key for future studies of mammalian biology and of new treatments for diseases, such as COVID-19, that affect the lungs.

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Penn Medicine finds viral variants of concern in over a third of latest COVID-19 samples

Experts call on the public to continue masking, social distancing, and other protection efforts to prevent spread and further mutation of the virus.

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1920-2020: Profiles of women in medicine

Between 1920 and 2020, women rose from second-class citizenship to take the reins as pioneering leaders in medicine, among all other areas of public life

Perelman School of Medicine students sit masked and socially distanced surrounded by balloons and streamers and confetti as they open envelopes.

Why Match Day has more meaning in 2021

This year, 147 medical students from the Perelman School of Medicine celebrated the reveal of their residency placements on Match Day in hybrid celebration of virtual and small number of in-person students.

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